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Empowerment of those in need: For many years HealthWrights (Workgroup for People’s Health and Rights) has helped promote the well-being and inclusion of people and groups who are marginalized, denigrated, or not given a fair chance. Through personal involvement in such people’s lives and communities, we have developed and easy-to-understand health and disability-related educational materials, some of which have had worldwide impact. In addition to providing critically important information to millions of people, these materials have had a major influence on the concept and practice of Primary Health Care, Community Based Rehabilitation, and other global strategies now promoted by WHO and UNICEF – helping to make them more participatory, more empowering, and more committed to changing the underlying socio-political determinants of health.

Scaling up of enabling methods and materials: Having been immersed in small grassroots health and disability initiatives for decades, we at HealthWrights are now focusing on disseminating our experiences and resources. We have been facilitating hands-on workshops in many countries, and are producing new tools of communication, such as educational videos and DVDs. We are digitalizing the sets of teaching slides we developed earlier, so as to greatly reduce the costs of distribution. Likewise, all our books and learning material have an “Open Copyright Policy” allowing anyone to freely copy, translate, or adapt them.

Renovated websites: With the help of dedicated volunteers, HealthWrights has been updating our website, making all our books are are now freely accessible online, as are our newsletters, which can now be searched by topic.

Growing needs in hard times: In these difficult times, HealthWrights and the community programs it collaborates with in Mexico are having a hard time making ends meet. Since the nationalistic Trump administration came into power in the US, so many undocumented workers are being sent back to México that it is deepening Mexico's economic crisis -- at least for the poor majority. With the flood of returning workers to Mexico, there is now more competition for jobs back home. Hence real wages have fallen, joblessness (and crime!) have escalated, and more families have been pushed into dire poverty. México may now be officially classified by the World Bank as a "middle income country," but the growing gap between rich and poor has left a large and growing part of the population in destitution.